First Grade Kentucky Core Content
In first grade, we lay the foundation blocks that your child will use throughout their educational years. Your student will be learning many new skills and concepts, as well as, building on the knowledge they have previously learned.
Your child will be learning the following skills and concepts that have been set for us by the state of Kentucky. I hope you find this information helpful.
Content Areas
By the end of first grade, your child will be able to...
Reading
b. choosing a perspective authentic to the writer
c. adhering to the characteristics of the form
d. addressing the needs of the intended audience
The students will be able to understand that...
Social Studies
In first grade, we lay the foundation blocks that your child will use throughout their educational years. Your student will be learning many new skills and concepts, as well as, building on the knowledge they have previously learned.
Your child will be learning the following skills and concepts that have been set for us by the state of Kentucky. I hope you find this information helpful.
Content Areas
By the end of first grade, your child will be able to...
Reading
- Use and recognition strategies (e.g. phonetic principles, context clues, structural analysis) to determine pronunciations for meanings of words in passages
- Have knowledge of synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, rhyming words, and compound words for comprehension
- Introduced to multiple meaning words
- Have an awareness of basic prefixes and suffixes and root/base word
- Know the purpose of capitalization, punctuation, and boldface type to make meaning of the text
- Describe characters, plot, setting, or problems/solution of a passage
- Identify specialized vocabulary (words and terms specific to understanding the content)
- Identify the correct sequence of a story or sequence of events
- Begin to make inferences or draw conclusions based on what is read
- Explain a character's actions based on a passage
- Identify main idea and details
- Identify pictures, lists, tables, charts, graphs, tables of content, indexes, glossaries, headings, diagrams, and captions to more completely understand the passages.
- Establish and maintain a focused purpose to communicate with an authentic audience by
b. choosing a perspective authentic to the writer
c. adhering to the characteristics of the form
d. addressing the needs of the intended audience
- Support main ideas and deepen the audience's understanding of purpose by developing logical justified, and suitable explanations
- Create unity and coherence to accomplish the focused purpose by communicating ideas and support in a meaningful order
- Apply transition and transitional elements to guide the reader through the piece
- Create effective sentences by applying a variety of structures and lengths
- Develop complete and correct sentences
- Apply correct grammar and usage
- Incorporate verbs, nouns, and details
- Apply correct spelling
- Apply correct punctuation
- Apply correct capitalization
- Revise (content/ideas)
- Reflect to determine where to add, delete, rearrange, define/redefine, or elaborate content
- Edit (conventions and mechanics)
- Check for corrections
- Language usage
- Sentence structure
- Spelling
- Capitalization
- Punctuation
- Analyze concepts of number sense
- Apply multiple representations to describe whole numbers (0-500)
- Apply multiple representations to describe fractions (halves, thirds, fourths)
- Apply numbers to represent real-world problems
- Apply place value with ones, tens, hundreds
- Compare whole numbers (<, >, =)
- Review ordinal numbers (1st to 10th)
- Apply strategies for estimating with numbers
- Explore appropriate estimation procedures for different situations
- Analyze and determine the appropriate computational method
- Count by ones, fives, and tens to 500
- Order relationships to compare whole numbers
- Model addition and subtraction using manipulatives
- Fact families
- Add and subtract to 18
- Add and subtract two and three digit numbers without regrouping
- Add and subtract amounts of money
- Identify the value of coins (penny, nickel dime, quarter)
- Identify with examples of even and odd numbers
- Identify multiples of 2, 5, and 10
- Apply standard units of measure
- Apply weight to the nearest pound
- Apply length to the nearest inch or centimeter
- Apply time to the nearest half hour
- Identify money (coins and bills) by value
- Apply and provide examples of basic properties of geometric shapes (sides, edges)
- Understand spatial relationships in front of/behind, inside/outside, top/middle/bottom, over/under, left/right, beside/above/below
- Review and name examples of 2-D shapes (rectangle, circle, diamond, triangle, square, hexagon, octagon, and oval)
- Sort and identify 3-D objects by appearance and in different orientations (sphere, cube, cylinder, rectangular prism, solid, pyramid, and cone)
- Model and describe congruent and symmetrical figures in real world mathematical situations
- Model, construct, and interpret displays of data (line graph, pictograph, line plot, simple Venn diagram)
- Use tally marks
- Make predictions (best guess, outcome)
- Review calendar concepts (months of year, days of week)
- Apply and conduct simple probability experiments
- Explore likely/unlikely outcomes (comparing)
- Identify, describe, and create patterns in real-life situations
- Extend simple patterns (colors, shapes, sounds)
- Recognize rules for number patterns
- Effectively use number line
- Sort/classify objects by one or more attributes (alike, different)
- Describe functions through pictures and words
- Introduce missing addends
- Functions using input/output tables, pictures, words
- Use number sentences in solving one-step real world word problems (more than, how many in all)
The students will be able to understand that...
- Objects are made of one or more materials such as paper, wood, metal. They can be described by the properties from which they are made (size, shape, color, texture, mass, etc.)
- Objects can be classified by their properties
- matter can exist in different states--solid, liquid, and gas. Properties of those states of matter can be used to describe and classify them.
- Describe the properties of water as it occurs as a solid, liquid, or gas
- Magnets have observable properties that allow them to attract certain kinds of other materials (e.g. iron)
- Describe the interactions of magnets with other magnets and other matter (e.g. magnets can make some things move without touching them).
- The position and motion of objects can be changed by pushing and pulling. The amount of change in position and motion is related to the strength of the push or pull (force).
- Describe the position and motion of objects and predict changes in position and motion as related to the strength of pushes and pulls.
- Sound is produced by vibrating objects.
- Explain that sound is a result of vibrations, a type of motion.
- Earth materials provide many of the resources humans use (rocks, soils, water, and gases)
- Describe weather and weather data, looking for patterns, in order to make simple predictions based on those patterns discovered (water cycle, surface chanes, precipitations, evaporation, condensation)
- Objects in the sky (sun, clouds, moon, planets) have properties that can be observed and described.
- Explore the objects in the sky (sun, clouds, moon, planets)
- Organisms have basic needs. For example: animal need air, water, and food; plants need air, water, nutrients, and light; nonliving things can continue to exist without any requirement.
- Explain the basic needs of organisms
- Each plant or animal has observable structures that serve different functions in growth, survival, and reproduction. Fore example: humans have distinct body structures for waling, holding, seeing, and talking. These observable structures should be explored to sort, classify, compare, and describe organisms.
- Students will describe the basic structure and related functions of plants and animals that contribute to growth, reproduction, and survival.
- Plants and animals have life cycles that include the beginning of life, growth, and development, reproduction, and death. The details of a life cycle are different for different organisms.
- Compare a variety of plant and animal life cycles to understand patterns of the growth, development, reproduction, and death of an organism.
- Fossils found in Earth materials provide evidence about organisms that lived long ago and the nature of the environment at that time.
- Plants make their own food. All animals depend on plants. Some animals eat plants for food. Other animals eat animals that eat plants.
- Describe basic relationships of plants and animals in an ecosystem (food chains)
- Simple observations and investigations begin to reveal that the Sun provides the light and heat.
- Describe evidence of the sun providing light and heat to the Earth.
- Electricity in circuits can produce light.
- Observe models of basic electrical circuits using batteries, bulbs, and wires in order to determine whether a simple circuit is open or closed.
- The world has many different environments. Distinct environments support the lives of different types of organisms.
- Describe the cause and effect relationships existing between organisms and their environments.
Social Studies
- Identify and give examples of ways to show good citizenship at home, at school, and in the community (e.g., helping a peer with homework, recycling paper or cans at school, picking up trash on the playground)
- Describe cultural elements (e.g. beliefs, tracitions)
- Describe basic economic concepts related to scarcity (e.g. natural and human resources) and explain why people cannot have all the goods and services that they want
- Identify basic economic terms related to markets (e.g. goods, services, buyers, sellers, producer, consumer, supply, demand, barter)
- Describe the production, distribution, and consumption of goods
- Describe ways people modify the physical environment to meet their basic needs (food, shelter, and clothing)
- Identify and describe patrotic symbols, songs, holidays, and landmarks (e.g. American flag, the Fourth of July, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving, Statue of Liberty, Martin Luther King, Jr., monuments, and memorials.